Pictured: Wedding brawl bride enjoying her bachelorette weekend in Miami before big day ended in violence and death of her uncle

Smiling as she soaks up the sun in Miami, this is wedding brawl bride Nicole Sannuti on her bachelorette weekend - just weeks before her big day ended in tragedy.

She and seven friends flew to Florida last month for a party which one of them described as ‘one big scene from The Hangover’.

On their first day they stayed up for 24 hours in what was the perfect send-off for their beloved friend.

But come the wedding itself, things took a far darker turn with the now infamous brawl at a hotel which involved up to 100 members of both the bride and groom’s families.

Bachelorette: Nicole Sannuti, right, and seven friends flew to Florida last month for a party which one of them described as 'one big scene from The Hangover'

Much love: On their first day the girls stayed up for 24 hours in what was the perfect send-off for their beloved friend Nicole, left

Another guest at the hotel filmed the episode and posted it on YouTube where it got more than 900,000 hits and gave the Sannuti family the kind of celebrity nobody would wish on their worst enemy.

Worse still, Miss Sannuti’s uncle Vincent Sannuti, 57, suffered a heart attack and died in the melee whilst her brother-in-law Matthew Sofka, 26, has been charged with assaulting a police officer and resisting arrest.

A few weeks before however, things looked very different.

Miss Sannuti, 28, a vice president of asset management HR at Credit Suisse, kissed goodbye to fiance Michael Sofka, 28, for a weekend away with the girls.

Leaving her home in Jersey City, New Jersey, she knew that it was the last chance she had to let off some steam before the big day on October 6.

The weekend was documented on Twitter by Miss Sannuti’s friend Kristin Pettito who wrote on September 14: ‘A mini vacay much needed!!!’

She also wrote: ‘Miami bound - bachelorette time with my best girls!’

Happy bride: Smiling with her friend, far left, and fiance Michael Sofka, right, little did Nicole know that her big day would end in tragedy and violence

The next day she posted a photo of herself on Instagram wearing a yellow dress with the bride-to-be next to her and the caption: ‘This is what being awake for 24 hours looks like. At a speakeasy. In Miami’.

Another with the caption ‘Love you so!!!’ shows her standing next to Miss Sannuti who can clearly be seen wearing a badge with ‘bride’ written on it in what looks like a hotel room.

Another poignant reminder of what should have been was the wedding registry of gifts which the happy couple should have been enjoying

Perhaps the most touching photo however was posted on Instagram by a user called Maryfaithgrace, believed to be Miss Sannuti’s sister.

It showed all eight women lined up next to each other arm in arm with the caption underneath reading: ‘Miami!!!’

Upon returning to New Jersey Miss Pettito made clear how much everyone enjoyed themselves as she wrote on Twitter to a friend: ‘I was the epitome of drunk girl dance face this weekend. Would have made you proud’.

Another Tweet read: ‘This weekend was one big scene from the hangover. And it was brilliant’.

Come the wedding however, brilliant turned to bloody - with awful consequences.

Another poignant reminder of what should have been was the wedding registry of gifts which the happy couple should have been enjoying - instead of grieving the loss of a relative.

The two lists on Crate & Barrel and Macy’s show they had everything they needed to start a new life together, from ice buckets to cups and plates to corkscrews.

There were also more upscale items like a Vera Wang 65-piece flatware collection for $225.

MailOnline’s calls to Miss Petitto’s cellphone went unreturned,

A man who answered Miss Sannuti’s cellphone, but declined to give his name, said: ‘Nicole is doing fine, as best she can. Thanks for your concern’.

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A woman who answered the door at Miss Sannuti’s family home in Southampton, Pennsylvania, said: ‘We’re not saying anything, we’re reaching out for our lawyer’.

Their attorney, Fortunato Perri, did not return calls.

Matthew Sofka, 26, from New Jersey denies all charges against him after he was arrested, right, on Saturday at the wedding of his brother Michael and Nicole Sanutti

Yesterday, her brother-in-law's
attorney revealed his client denies all charges that he assaulted a
police officer and resisted arrest and intends to fight all charges
against him.

Brother-of-the-groom
Matthew Sofka, 26, from New Jersey, was the only person taken into
custody after the violent melee broke out at the Sheraton Society Hill
hotel.

Sofka's attorney said his client neither assaulted police or resisted arrest. In fact, he said he was repeatedly struck by officer's batons and subdued with a stun gun.

The wedding of his brother Michael Sofka to Nicole Sannuti had taken place in another venue nearby but some of the guests returned to the Sheraton later where they were staying. This is where they ran into trouble with the other wedding party.

Attorney Fortunato Perri Jr said the fight was already underway when Sofka arrived at the hotel and that he did not assault the officers.

'He has the highest respect for law enforcement. His father is a retired police officer.

'There was absolute chaos going on from a prior incident,' he toldPhilly.comon Tuesday, adding that there was still no idea as to how it started.

Chaos: Police can be seen wrestling with wedding guests (right) while the horrified bride watches the brawl unfold (left)

Break it up: Officers can be seen using their batons to untangle two wrestling guests. Two people were cited and one was arrested

The bride's uncle Vincent Sannuti,
57, suffered a heart attack in the hotel parking lot and was pronounced
dead on arrival at hospital.

Mr Perri said: 'This was supposed to be a joyous and
happy affair, but it turned into tragedy. It was bedlam
when they walked in there.'

Hotel guest Max Schultz, 15, videoed the 2am altercation. He was not a part of either wedding party.

According
to the charges, police say Sofka and two other men punched and kicked
Officer Sean Dandridge, striking him in the head. Two other men were
cited for disorderly conduct, but their names have not been released.

Yesterday,
a picture was released of the bride and groom before their wedding day
with details of what Nicole Sannuti expected her big day to be like -
none of which included a fracas.

The
28-year-old planned everything on social-media website Pinterest and it
shows she was planning a fairytale day, rather than the nightmare it
turned out to be.

On her
page, she pinned links to the perfect cake, sparkly centerpieces,
hairstyles and shadow boxes to hold her wedding memorabilia.

One pin suggested a heart-felt message
written on the sole of a bride's shoe from a groom. Another showed
unique floral arrangements and even a tree on which guests leave their
fingerprints.

She was also taken with a service where you can stitch the date of the wedding in the hem of the dress.

Nicole will never be able to forget the date of her big day, but for very different reasons than she hoped.

Melee: Police say that two wedding receptions were taking place at the hotel and a fight broke out near the bar

At least five officers can be seen yanking the combatants away from each other.

Tragedy: The bride's uncle reportedly died outside the wedding reception fight, which broke out at the Sheraton Society Hill hotel in Philadelphia

In the video, women can be heard screaming as men shove each other around near the wedding party table.

Suddenly, Philadelphia police can be seen charging into the reception with nightsticks and
pulling fighting wedding guests off each other.

Hotel guests
said up to 100 cops showed up to control the 50 to 100 wedding guests
who were fighting each other.

Lt Ray Evers, police spokesman, said it's still not clear what sparked the fights.

'I don't have a solid answer how it started,' he said, 'but we had to come in and clean it up.'

More arrests are expected as police
interview more guests and responding police officers, and as they pore
over additional surveillance footage.